Today, 4/30/12 only, one of Best Buy's Deals of the Day is an RCA 42" Class Plasma 720p, 600Hz HDTV for $299 with free shipping. This television normally sells for $449.99. It got 4 1/2 stars out of 5 over 46 customer reviews. These Best Buy television deals tend to sell out quickly.

To sweeten the deal, make sure you take advantage of Best Buy's $10 gift card offer if you purchase this television, but remember that if you do that, you'll need to do a (free) store pickup.

Here's your reminder that the end of the month is nigh upon us; today is April 30, 2012, which means we can look forward to some new coupons popping up in the changing of the (coupon) guard. It also means that many of your favorite coupons, you know, the ones you've been meaning to print but haven't gotten round to, are going to disappear. If you've got any coupons on Coupons.com, SmartSource, Red Plum, Whole Foods, Target, Betty Crocker, or Cellfire, that you've been eyeing, now is a good time to put paper in the printer.

Time to get ready for Shavuot, get the house ready for a change of seasons, take out the grill and outdoor furniture, and wrap up summer vacation plans. Because of the warmer weather, our menus are going to get lighter and include more produce, beverages, less heavy meats and starches, and we'll adjust our shopping accordingly. Coming up are Mother's and Father's Day, and graduations. I love this time of year.

Wow wow wow. I absolutely love these uber-pretty Tree of Life earrings from Superjeweler. Their design is unique and eye-catching. These unusual Tree of Life earrings, normally $29.99, are on sale for $19.99. BUT, when you buy them through this link and enter the special promo code DAILYCHEAPSKATE12, you can get these great earrings for just $7.99! (Clicking through the link should already automatically enter the promo code for you, but if the price comes up as $19.99, enter the code manually and the price should drop.) Shipping is free and there is no limit on the number of earrings you can get at the discounted price.

These earrings are made from silver-plated bronze and are lightweight and dangly. At this ridiculously low price, I bought one pair for myself and two pairs set aside as gifts.

Print this $1 Reach coupon (use your back button to print it twice) and redeem it at your local Target or Walmart store for free dental floss. Reach 55' dental floss is $0.97 at either Target or Walmart, making for a free item.

You must sign up for Fit Studio as a new membership with a new email address in order to receive your free workout ball (value $12.99).

Sign up here and make sure you enter promo code "ball" at signup. Once you've completed signup, check your email and print a coupon for a free workout ball. Bring your coupon into any local Sears (excludes Outlet stores, Hometown stores, Sears Appliance stores) in order to redeem.

This offer expires on 5/5/12. The coupon for the free workout ball must be redeemed no later than 5/31/12.

(Note: make sure any items you purchase in the Flash Sale are new and not factory refurbished. I give factory refurbished items a very wide berth and so should you. There are quite a few deals and steals among the new items.)

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Whole Foods is having a special on the kosher version of the Tillamook kosher medium cheddar cheese. Normally $5.99, it's currently on sale for $3.49. I checked with the manager of one of the Denver Whole Foods and was told it was a regional sale, so YYMV.

Payless Shoes is running one of their quarterly Buy-One-Get-One-Half-Off sales (BOGOHO). As we've discussed in the past, BOGOHO is the equivalent of 25% off, when both items that you are purchasing are the same price. When the prices differ, the discount drops below 25%, so to get your best value out of any BOGOHO sale, try to choose pairs of items that are the same price.

Now, on top of the BOGOHO discount, you can also get an additional 25% off (through 4/30/12,) by entering promo code 65814 at checkout. This 25% off is applied after the BOGOHO discount. (If you want to do the math, you'll be paying 75% of 75%, or 56.25%.)

That means that stacking these two discounts is the equivalent of almost 44% off. And a 44% discount is HUGE.

I've found that Payless.com has always had a better selection and more sizes available than an actual Payless store. And if you'd like to return your purchase, you can avoid shipping fees again by bringing it back to a Payless store.

Shop the Payless BOGOHO/25% off sale here. Remember to use promo code 65814 at checkout and to buy pairs of items that are the same price. Also, keep in mind that the extra 25% off is only good through 4/30/12; after that you'll only get a straight BOGOHO discount.

We actually have a food dehydrator and I love it. I use it to make dried apples, pineapple, bananas, carrots, and spices for me, and dried beef jerky for my husband. I also dehydrated a whole bunch of sliced lemons and limes and use them on Shabbat, when we offer our guests herbal tea. Dunk a dried slice of citrus in hot tea, and it instantly rehydrates it; it makes for wonderful presentation and I don't have to think about keeping fresh lemons around.

A food dehydrator is great for when you've got fruits and vegetables that are on their last legs and won't be good in a day or two. Just slice them up, put them on the dehydrator, and come back a few hours later. I thought Joshua was nuts when he first suggested we buy the dehydrator (ten years ago), but we use it so often to salvage produce that is on its way out, it has really turned out to be a frugal purchase.

A dehydrator is super-useful 1) if you're facing a long car or plane trip with no refrigeration available 2) if you want to keep healthy snacks in the house (that aren't full of sugar) that will keep for months in the cupboard 3) if you're going camping 4) if you are growing spices and have more on hand than you can use 5) if you're taking a trip abroad and won't have access to kosher meat 6) if you are seriously addicted to dried fruit 7) if you want to try some delicious kosher beef/chicken/turkey jerky without spending a small fortune. A food dehydrator is a great investment.

Speaking of beef jerky, here is the recipe I use when I make Joshua this treat. Try it after you purchase the dehydrator.

2 lbs. of any type beef (the cheaper, the better. I use flank or chuck)

4 oz. teriyaki sauce

2 oz. ounces of low sodium soy sauce

1 T. garlic powder

3 T. dark brown sugar (or 4 T. Stevia if you want to avoid sugar)

2 T. of onion powder

1 T. cayenne pepper

1/4 cup orange juice

Slice beef into thin strips. Combine remaining ingredients in a large ziplock bag and add meat. Marinade in refrigerator for 24 hours. Lay out beef strips on dehydrator, turn it on and walk away for a few hours (test it and see if it's done). When you return, you'll have delicious strips of beef jerky for a fraction of what it would cost you to buy.

Design your own mug from Ink Garden, complete with personal photos and artwork, and pay only for the shipping; the mug is free. Shipping starts at $5.99. (The personalized mug normally costs $8.99.) Use promo code FREEMUG at checkout in order to receive the mug for free.

Run, don't walk, to snag this deal. Just $16.94 for more than two pounds of high-quality coffee AND a coffeemaker, shipped. (Even if you've already got a coffeemaker, if you've been hankering after a Pesach coffeemaker, this is your deal.) You'll need to sign up for auto-delivery, but you are not obligated to accept auto-delivery to get the free coffeemaker; if you decide you don't want auto-delivery, just cancel immediately after you receive your order.

Sometimes saving money requires effort and investment. This is not one of those times. This is one of those no-brainers that's just too easy.

BTW, if you ordered the old deal and have not received your order yet, call Gevalia at 1-800-Gevalia (1-800-438-2542), tell them you just saw this new offer, and ask them if you can change to this one. No guarantee, but their customer service has always been very accommodating.

I found some great new coupons on a (new to me) website, Common Kindness, that rewards your favorite charities when you print coupons from the site. When you create your log-in, you'll be asked to select your charities. I was able to find my current favorite, Denver Academy of Torah (DAT) on Common Kindness' list, so do look for local charities...you might be surprised.

You will be allowed just one coupon print per coupon, but unlike other coupon sites, you can print to a pdf or make multiple copies of favorite coupons.

Joshua is a bit of a cheese connoisseur. He loves Tillamook's kosher medium cheddar. The 8 oz. brick sells for around $4 in the Denver area, so with this coupon, we'll pay $3. That's some mighty cheap cheese.